On Mi, 2016-02-17 at 20:48 +0000, Robert Kern wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:43 PM, G Young <gfyoun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Josef: I don't think we are making people think more. They're all > keyword arguments, so if you don't want to think about them, then you > leave them as the defaults, and everyone is happy. > > I believe that Josef has the code's reader in mind, not the code's > writer. As a reader of other people's code (and I count 6-months-ago > -me as one such "other people"), I am sure to eventually encounter > all of the different variants, so I will need to know all of them. >
Completely agree. Greg, if you need more then a few minutes to explain it in this case, there seems little point. It seems to me even the worst cases of your examples would be covered by writing code like: np.random.randint(np.iinfo(np.uint8).min, 10, dtype=np.uint8) And *everyone* will immediately know what is meant with just minor extra effort for writing it. We should keep the analogy to "range" as much as possible. Anything going far beyond that, can be confusing. On first sight I am not convinced that there is a serious convenience gain by doing magic here, but this is a simple case: "Explicit is better then implicit" since writing the explicit code is easy. It might also create weird bugs if the completely unexpected (most users would probably not even realize it existed) happens and you get huge numbers because you happened to have a `low=0` in there. Especially your point 2) seems confusing. As for 3) if I see `np.random.randint(high=3)` I think I would assume [0, 3).... Additionally, I am not sure the maximum int range is such a common need anyway? - Sebastian > -- > Robert Kern > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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